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Bin Chi, Yuhu Quan, Fenglai Wang and Xu Yang
Prestressing technology is an effective way to improve the seismic performance of masonry structures such as concrete masonry wall. Therefore, bonded prestressing technology applied to integrated concrete masonry wall (ICMW) was proposed in this study, a...
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Lingjiang Tao
With an El Niño prediction model, an advanced approach of conditional nonlinear optimal perturbation (CNOP) is used to reveal the maximum impacts of the errors occurring in initial conditions (ICs) and model parameters (MPs) on the El Niño predictions. T...
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Pengfei Ning, Dianjun Zhang, Xuefeng Zhang, Jianhui Zhang, Yulong Liu, Xiaoyi Jiang and Yansheng Zhang
The Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography (Argo) program provides valuable data for maritime research and rescue operations. This paper is based on Argo historical and satellite observations, and inverted sea surface and submarine drift trajectori...
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Jianwei Yang, Changdong Liu, Peishan Liu and Yue Zhao
Cracks are one of the most common diseases of tunnel lining, and the structural dynamic response can be used to assess the health of a tunnel. Hence, this paper investigates the dynamic response of shield tunnel lining with a partly circumferential crack...
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Enrica Serretiello, Annafrancesca Smimmo, Andrea Ballini, Domenico Parmeggiani, Massimo Agresti, Paola Bassi, Giancarlo Moccia, Antonella Sciarra, Alessandra De Angelis, Paola Della Monica, Maria Michela Marino and Marina Di Domenico
Breast cancer (BC) caused 685,000 deaths globally in 2020, earning the title of the most common type of tumor among females. With a multifactorial genesis, BC is influenced by several factors such as age, genetic and epigenetic predisposition, and an ind...
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Juan Gabriel Rueda-Bayona, José Luis García Vélez and Daniel Mateo Parrado-Vallejo
The evolution of tidal stream turbines is increasing the feasibility of future tidal plants in shallow depth areas with mid-tidal ranges (<5 m). However, extreme events such as changes in bathymetry due to the access channel deepening of coastal ports an...
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Rutger W. A. Siemes, Trang Minh Duong, Pim W. J. M. Willemsen, Bas W. Borsje and Suzanne J. M. H. Hulscher
Estuaries are continuously adapting to anthropogenic pressure. Because of sea-level rise and reduced fluvial sediment supply, they are at risk of sediment starvation. Contrarily, some estuaries require frequent dredging after artificially deepening the c...
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Shuhong Song, Huanhuan Li, Mi Yang, Zhao Gu, Xiaohang Wang, Wenting Zhang and Yongzhi Liu
Under the background of drastic global climate change, the evolution law of groundwater resources in the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau presents new characteristics, and the groundwater is gradually becoming more complicated, diversified and ...
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Eleonora Congiu, Giuseppe Desogus, Caterina Frau, Gianluca Gatto and Stefano Pili
In this paper, we present the final results from the research project ?Urban Abacus of Building Energy Performances (Abaco Urbano Energeticodegli Edifci?AUREE)? aimed at supporting the renovation process and energy efficiency enhancement of urban buildin...
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Mattia Marini, Luca Maria Foresi, Viviana Barbagallo, Michelangelo Bisconti, Agata Di Stefano, Giovanni Muttoni and Ivan Martini
A c. 31 m thick section straddling the fossil find of an Early Pliocene baleen whale (?Brunella?, hereafter), made in 2007 in the sedimentary fill of the Middle Ombrone Basin of Tuscany, is investigated for depositional age and environment combining pala...
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